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"SCSEP: What's in Your Toolbox?" highlights ETA’s electronic tools - specifically O*NET and CareerOneStop.org.

With the workforce primer and other overviews, the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, and other research entities, have provided numerous resources to give current and prospective partners a high-level introduction,...

Evidence suggests that employers are increasingly changing their training and hiring practices to emphasize skills over formal qualifications. Skills-based hiring focuses on job candidates’ observable and measurable skills that are relevant to a...

Investigates the prevalence of self employment among older workers who made a job transition later in life and explores factors that determine the choice of wage-and-salary employment or self employment.

This report documents the challenges dislocated older workers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic uncertainty of coping with dislocation and increasingly limited opportunities to find new employment.

Explores issues associated with acquiring skills training and education; examines an array of options at postsecondary institutions and other community organizations with related resources to help make informed decisions; highlights emerging trend...

Here are some of the best sources for understanding special population characteristics and demographics in the labor force, and for using labor market information (LMI) to help you target services and design service delivery to special...

Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), job readiness and career preparation services are a crucial part of the job-driven vision that entails assisting jobseekers and workers in attaining employment and advancing through career...

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which was signed into law in 2014, envisions strong partnerships between local workforce development areas and local economic development agencies. Local workforce boards are encouraged to...

Evidence suggests that employers are increasingly changing their training and hiring practices to emphasize skills over formal qualifications. Skills-based hiring focuses on job candidates’ observable and measurable skills that are relevant to a...